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2024 SESSION
24-2531.0
05/10
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
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ANALYSIS
This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2531.0
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Business Profits Tax; Treatment of S Corporation Election. Amend RSA 77-A:1, III to read as follows:
III. "Gross business profits" means:
(a) In the case of a corporation[, except "S" corporations,] or any other business organization required to make and file a United States corporation income tax return, or in the case of a corporation which does not make and file a separate United States corporation income tax return for itself because it is a member of an affiliated group pursuant to the provisions of chapter 6 of the United States Internal Revenue Code as defined in RSA 77-A:1, XX, the amount of taxable income as would be determinable under the provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code as defined in RSA 77-A:1, XX before the application of any net operating loss deduction, special deductions shown on line 29 of the federal corporate income tax return, or any other special deductions allowable only to a certain class of corporate taxpayer.
(b) In the case of "S" corporations or any other business organizations required to make and file an "S" corporation return, the net profit from all business activity determined in accordance with rules adopted by the department of revenue administration under RSA 541-A; provided that an S corporation election at the federal level shall be recognized under this chapter and the flow-through items on the Schedule K shall not be incorporated into corporate income when determining taxable business profits.